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User Guide 3ware® Serial ATA RAID Controller Supports the 9550SX Models PN 720-0126-02 November 2005
User Guide 3ware® Serial ATA RAID Controller Supports the 9550SX Models PN 720-0126-02 November 2005
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... 58 Adjusting BIOS Loading Settings 61 Displaying Controller Information 63 Getting Help While Using 3BM 63 www.3ware.com i Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller 1 Product Features 1 What's New with Your 3ware RAID Controller 15 Chapter 3. Getting Started with the 3ware 9550SX Controllers 2 System Requirements 2 Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels 4 Available RAID Configurations 5 Determining What RAID Level to Windows 37 Driver Installation...
... 58 Adjusting BIOS Loading Settings 61 Displaying Controller Information 63 Getting Help While Using 3BM 63 www.3ware.com i Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller 1 Product Features 1 What's New with Your 3ware RAID Controller 15 Chapter 3. Getting Started with the 3ware 9550SX Controllers 2 System Requirements 2 Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels 4 Available RAID Configurations 5 Determining What RAID Level to Windows 37 Driver Installation...
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... Creating a New Unit 125 Creating a Unit through 3DM 127 Creating a Unit through 3DM 135 ii 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2 65 Browser Requirements for Linux or FreeBSD 70 Uninstalling 3DM under Linux or FreeBSD...Page 107 Battery Backup Page 108 3DM 2 Settings Page 111 Chapter 7. Configuring Your Controller 115 Viewing Information About Individual Controllers 115 Viewing and Setting Controller Policies 117 Viewing Controller Policies 118 Exporting JBOD Disks 119 Enabling and Setting Up Staggered Spinup 120 Disabling Write...
... Creating a New Unit 125 Creating a Unit through 3DM 127 Creating a Unit through 3DM 135 ii 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2 65 Browser Requirements for Linux or FreeBSD 70 Uninstalling 3DM under Linux or FreeBSD...Page 107 Battery Backup Page 108 3DM 2 Settings Page 111 Chapter 7. Configuring Your Controller 115 Viewing Information About Individual Controllers 115 Viewing and Setting Controller Policies 117 Viewing Controller Policies 118 Exporting JBOD Disks 119 Enabling and Setting Up Staggered Spinup 120 Disabling Write...
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...Under Windows 191 Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers 195 Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows XP 196 Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat 203 Updating the 3ware Driver Under SuSE 204 Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD 205 Updating the Firmware Under Linux...RMA Process 240 AMCC Technical Support and Services 241 Sales and ordering information 241 Feedback on this manual 241 Index 243 iv 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Cancelling a Rebuild and Restarting It with a Different Drive 185 Verifying Units 186 Verifying a Unit through 3DM ...
...Under Windows 191 Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers 195 Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows XP 196 Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat 203 Updating the 3ware Driver Under SuSE 204 Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD 205 Updating the Firmware Under Linux...RMA Process 240 AMCC Technical Support and Services 241 Sales and ordering information 241 Feedback on this manual 241 Index 243 iv 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Cancelling a Rebuild and Restarting It with a Different Drive 185 Verifying Units 186 Verifying a Unit through 3DM ...
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... Organized There are organized by tasks throughout other sections of product features for your 3ware 9550SX controller. Includes system requirements and an introduction to create a unit from 3ware's website: 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. Basic information about how to RAID concepts and levels. Introduction Description Provides an overview of this Guide Chapter 1. How this...
... Organized There are organized by tasks throughout other sections of product features for your 3ware 9550SX controller. Includes system requirements and an introduction to create a unit from 3ware's website: 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. Basic information about how to RAID concepts and levels. Introduction Description Provides an overview of this Guide Chapter 1. How this...
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... technical support. Provides common problems and solutions, and explains error messages. Configuring Your Controller 8. Troubleshooting A. Describes how to configure new units and spares, change configuration settings that affect the controller and all the 3DM pages. vi 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Maintaining Units 10. Provides compliance and conformity statement. Provides warranty information and...
... technical support. Provides common problems and solutions, and explains error messages. Configuring Your Controller 8. Troubleshooting A. Describes how to configure new units and spares, change configuration settings that affect the controller and all the 3DM pages. vi 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Maintaining Units 10. Provides compliance and conformity statement. Provides warranty information and...
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... the 3ware 9550SX RAID Controller can also operate at power-up to up System Requirements 3ware RAID controllers require the following A workstation-class or server-class motherboard which meets the following criteria: PCI slots that comply with it when you have a chassis that supports it can be connected to two, four, eight, twelve, or sixteen SATA...
... the 3ware 9550SX RAID Controller can also operate at power-up to up System Requirements 3ware RAID controllers require the following A workstation-class or server-class motherboard which meets the following criteria: PCI slots that comply with it when you have a chassis that supports it can be connected to two, four, eight, twelve, or sixteen SATA...
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...bit x86 Other Requirements Adequate air flow and cooling Adequate power supply for drives 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) displays information in a browser. www.3ware.com 3 System Requirements Operating System 3ware RAID controllers may be 1024 x 768, with : Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, both 32-bit and 64... SuSE Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86 Fedora Core Other versions of features and system requirements, refer to the 9550SX Series Datasheet, available from the website at http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata9000.asp.
...bit x86 Other Requirements Adequate air flow and cooling Adequate power supply for drives 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) displays information in a browser. www.3ware.com 3 System Requirements Operating System 3ware RAID controllers may be 1024 x 768, with : Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, both 32-bit and 64... SuSE Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86 Fedora Core Other versions of features and system requirements, refer to the 9550SX Series Datasheet, available from the website at http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata9000.asp.
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...or different ports on more disk drives that is the term used throughout the documentation, see the "Glossary". 4 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide The disks may be can be configured in rotation. When you need to move the unit to ...at the expense of swapping out or swapping in a redundant array. Array Roaming. Chapter 1. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels 3ware RAID controllers use a Redundant Array of removing a unit from both drives simultaneously. Striping. Mirrored arrays write data to...
...or different ports on more disk drives that is the term used throughout the documentation, see the "Glossary". 4 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide The disks may be can be configured in rotation. When you need to move the unit to ...at the expense of swapping out or swapping in a redundant array. Array Roaming. Chapter 1. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels 3ware RAID controllers use a Redundant Array of removing a unit from both drives simultaneously. Striping. Mirrored arrays write data to...
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... are used, with parity (exclusive OR) to two drives using RAID 1 algorithms (see Figure 3). Parity information is read operation. Chapter 1. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller RAID 1 Also known as a mirrored array. Mirrored disk arrays write ...data to restore data in TwinStor technology boost performance by preserving the data on pairs of drives. The adaptive algorithms in case of the file. RAID 5 Configuration Example 6 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller...
... are used, with parity (exclusive OR) to two drives using RAID 1 algorithms (see Figure 3). Parity information is read operation. Chapter 1. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller RAID 1 Also known as a mirrored array. Mirrored disk arrays write ...data to restore data in TwinStor technology boost performance by preserving the data on pairs of drives. The adaptive algorithms in case of the file. RAID 5 Configuration Example 6 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller...
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... Single Disk as caching, OCE, and RLM. Hot Spare A single drive, available online, so that you have enough drives. 8 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Determining What RAID Level to Use Select the RAID configuration to use the tables below to those ports. Chapter 1. Single drives are not fault tolerant and therefore not recommended...
... Single Disk as caching, OCE, and RLM. Hot Spare A single drive, available online, so that you have enough drives. 8 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Determining What RAID Level to Use Select the RAID configuration to use the tables below to those ports. Chapter 1. Single drives are not fault tolerant and therefore not recommended...
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... can enable auto-carving when you configure your 3ware RAID controller, specifying which drives should be 2TB; down to the 3ware controller: 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager) 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) 3ware CLI (Command Line Interface) 10 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide For more information, see the discussion of RAID configuration you easily configure the drives attached to...
... can enable auto-carving when you configure your 3ware RAID controller, specifying which drives should be 2TB; down to the 3ware controller: 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager) 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) 3ware CLI (Command Line Interface) 10 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide For more information, see the discussion of RAID configuration you easily configure the drives attached to...
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... the error sectors accordingly. Error Correction. With a 12 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Reallocation of blocks will be based intelligently on single disks, spares, JBODS and RAID 0 unit members. Chapter 1. This lets you to take proactive steps...Bad sectors can be turned on and off in monitoring and troubleshooting your system. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features Several 3ware RAID controller features aid in 3DM. (For details, see "Enabling and Setting Up Staggered Spinup" on...
... the error sectors accordingly. Error Correction. With a 12 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Reallocation of blocks will be based intelligently on single disks, spares, JBODS and RAID 0 unit members. Chapter 1. This lets you to take proactive steps...Bad sectors can be turned on and off in monitoring and troubleshooting your system. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features Several 3ware RAID controller features aid in 3DM. (For details, see "Enabling and Setting Up Staggered Spinup" on...
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Chapter 1. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller 14 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
Chapter 1. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller 14 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
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... 3BM is already installed on another drive in your controller and drives, follow the instructions in the 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller Quick Install Guide. If you want to review the information under "Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels" on page 4 before configuring your drives. Physically Install the Controller and Drives To install your system, you can...
... 3BM is already installed on another drive in your controller and drives, follow the instructions in the 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller Quick Install Guide. If you want to review the information under "Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels" on page 4 before configuring your drives. Physically Install the Controller and Drives To install your system, you can...
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... for when background tasks will be looked up your controller, you may want to the following information: Chapter 6, "3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2)" Chapter 8, "Configuring Units" 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide, available from the CD-ROM and from... "Setting Background Task Rate" on page 175 "Scheduling Background Tasks" on page 176 16 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide These features include: Controller and unit policies, such as a final step in Chapter 4, "Driver Installation." You can be performed, to...
... for when background tasks will be looked up your controller, you may want to the following information: Chapter 6, "3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2)" Chapter 8, "Configuring Units" 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide, available from the CD-ROM and from... "Setting Background Task Rate" on page 175 "Scheduling Background Tasks" on page 176 16 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide These features include: Controller and unit policies, such as a final step in Chapter 4, "Driver Installation." You can be performed, to...
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Chapter 2. Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller 18 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
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...the screen indicates the problem and remains on the disks. 20 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM To launch 3BM 1 Power up the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). Figure 6. 3ware Controller Board Selection Screen You see a screen similar to Figure 7, warning... system is starting, watch for just a few seconds. Chapter 3. Normally your 3ware configuration remains on-screen for a screen similar to Figure 5. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---- 3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9550SX-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU...
...the screen indicates the problem and remains on the disks. 20 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM To launch 3BM 1 Power up the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). Figure 6. 3ware Controller Board Selection Screen You see a screen similar to Figure 7, warning... system is starting, watch for just a few seconds. Chapter 3. Normally your 3ware configuration remains on-screen for a screen similar to Figure 5. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---- 3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9550SX-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU...
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... access) and larger stripe sizes for random access (such as a database). 22 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Create Disk Array Display, RAID 0 Example To select the desired RAID configuration 1 (Optional) Press Enter in the Array Name field and type name for RAID 1, because it is a mirrored unit without striping. In general, use each, see...
... access) and larger stripe sizes for random access (such as a database). 22 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Create Disk Array Display, RAID 0 Example To select the desired RAID configuration 1 (Optional) Press Enter in the Array Name field and type name for RAID 1, because it is a mirrored unit without striping. In general, use each, see...
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For information about doing particular tasks in 3BM, refer to your 3ware 9550SX RAID controller. 5 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2) This section describes the basics of using 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2), one of online units: 1, available drives: 0, hot spare: 0, offline units:0 Exportable Units: 3drive 64K RAID5 ...63 Starting 3BM 2 You access 3BM during the start-up process for a screen similar to Figure 23. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---- 3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9550SX-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of the tools you ...
For information about doing particular tasks in 3BM, refer to your 3ware 9550SX RAID controller. 5 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2) This section describes the basics of using 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2), one of online units: 1, available drives: 0, hot spare: 0, offline units:0 Exportable Units: 3drive 64K RAID5 ...63 Starting 3BM 2 You access 3BM during the start-up process for a screen similar to Figure 23. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---- 3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9550SX-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of the tools you ...